Researchers to Create Human/Cow Hybrid

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Researchers to Create Human/Cow Hybrid

Paging Dr. Moreau: A team of stem-cell researchers from the University of Newcastle has applied to produce an embryo using an cow’s egg and a human cell. The plan is to remove the nucleus from the cow's egg and replace it with an adult human cell, to produce a hybrid that is 99.9 percent homo sapien. The resulting cell, they say, would be allowed to grow for several days when the team would attempt to extract stem cells, an then it would be destroyed. According to the story, the goal is "to develop a way of creating stem cells that does not require human eggs, but the application seems likely to be met with controversy." Ya think?